Personally I think this was stupid for David Stern to do. It should be up to the coach who he plays and who he rests. Besides nobody in Miami even cared if SA big three were there or not because they don't go to the Heat games to see them. They go to see Lebron Wade and Bosh. Also it is even more ridiculous because the spurs didnt lose by 30 or something and had a good chance of winning the game so if they won would Stern still have fined them? This was like the spurs saving game shape for upcoming games and I saw nothing wrong with it. PS I am a Denver nuggets fan so this is not biased at all. I take the back... I am biased because I frekin hate David Stern.
I'm with you. Despite of all explainable reasons there is no system. No fair system, if fair is anything NBA wants to associate itself with.
It's basically an opinion of one man. We lost some money, let's punish the guilty. But what it does, it just brings more BS into NBA. Teams will now fake injuries to do the same.
P.S. Denver is my Western conference team, really enjoyed Memphis game.